[mythtv-users] overlay mode available?

[Andreas Bohnert]

Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

>I hate to burst your bubble, but a P-III 350 MHz is not going to be able 
>to handle that.  You'll be lucky if you can get 320x240.  Generally 
>speaking, you need at least 1 GHz to handle an analog tuner card, plus 
>a little extra (~500 MHz) to handle simultaneous playback.  I'd say the 
>most cost-effective option for you (rather than getting a new video 
>card, CPU & possibly a new mobo) would be to get a PVR-350.  It does 
>MPEG-2 encoding *and* decoding in hardware, so it hardly uses your CPU 
>at all, and the picture quality is terrific (so I hear).  You can 
>probably get one for about USD$200-250.
>
>  
>
yes, you did burst my bubble :)
but that was just in time. I have to think about the pvr 350. Maybe it 
will be cheaper around christmas (another bubble??)

anyway, thank you joseph!
andreas